1title: Minoan Sealstone of a Bull - Walters 42769
artist: Anonymous (minoan)Unknown author
date: circa 1500 (Late Minoan)
medium: Technique hematite
dimensions: size cm height=1.3 width=2.8 depth=1.1
current location: Museum purchase, 1941
credit: Walters art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
description: Carved sealstones were popular ornaments among Bronze Age Minoans and Mycenaeans and served as insignia of rank and social status. They were influenced by the elaborate traditions of stamp and cylinder seals developed in the Near East and Egypt. The frequent appearance of bulls on seals may be inspired by the many minoan palace wall-paintings and reliefs featuring the animal.
license:Public domain
2title: Minoan Rhyton in the Form of a Bull's Head - Walters 23194 - Side
artist: Anonymous (minoan)Unknown author
date: 1600 BC
medium: black steatite
dimensions: size cm height=7.1
current location: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929
credit: Walters art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
license:Public domain
3title: Minoan Fragment of a Vase - Walters 23195
artist: Anonymous (minoan)Unknown author
date: 1600 BC
medium: black steatite
dimensions: size cm height=13.8
current location: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929
credit: Walters art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
license:Public domain
4title: Minoan Snake Goddess - Walters 23196
artist: Anonymous (minoan)Unknown author
date: 1600 BC
medium: black steatite
dimensions: H of upper part: size cm 14.5 ; H of lower part: size cm 14.9
current location: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929
credit: Walters art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
license:Public domain
5title: Small terracotta trefoil mouthed jug MET DP114346
artist: unknown
date: circa 1950 –1900 B.C.
medium: Terracotta
dimensions: H. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm.)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of art
source: link Template:TheMet
credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
description:
minoan; Jug, one handled with trefoil mouth; Vases; Fine plain ware without decoration.license:
CC0
6title: Minoan body sherd
artist: unknown
date: circa 1981 –1640 B.C.
- Period: Middle Kingdom
- Dynasty: Dynasty 12–13
medium: en Pottery
dimensions: en h. 3.4 cm (1 5/16 in); w. 4.3 cm (1 11/ 16 in)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of art
source: link Template:TheMet
credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
description: minoan body sherd
license:
CC0
7title: Minoan body sherd
artist: unknown
date: circa 1981 –1640 B.C.
- Period: Middle Kingdom
- Dynasty: Dynasty 12–13
medium: en Pottery
dimensions: en h. 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in); w. 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of art
source: link Template:TheMet
credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
description: minoan body sherd
license:
CC0
8title: Minoan body sherd
artist: unknown
date: circa 1981 –1640 B.C.
- Period: Middle Kingdom
- Dynasty: Dynasty 12–13
medium: en Pottery
dimensions: en h. 4 cm (1 9/16 in); w. 5.3 cm (2 1/16 in)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of art
source: link Template:TheMet
credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
description: minoan body sherd, bowl
license:
CC0
9title: Minoan body sherd
artist: unknown
date: circa 1981 –1640 B.C.
- Period: Middle Kingdom
- Dynasty: Dynasty 12–13
medium: en Pottery
dimensions: en h. 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in); w. 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of art
source: link Template:TheMet
credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
description: minoan body sherd
license:
CC0
title: Crete, Minoan, Middle Minoan III Late Minoan I - Female Worshiper - 2002.89 - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: unknown
date: c. 1600-1500 BC
medium: Bronze
dimensions: Overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of art
source: link
credit: link
description:
This extremely rare minoan bronze statuette represents a girl worshiping a deity. It was probably left as a dedication to a divinity. She wears a flounced skirt over a sleeved robe open at the front. The figure shows a remarkable degree of detail, including looped earrings, bracelets, and a necklace. Her shaved hairstyle, not found on any other minoan bronze statuette, matches that of painted figures in roughly contemporary frescoes uncovered on the island of Thera, north of Crete. Its excellent condition, rarity, fine detail, and balanced proportions set it apart from other statuettes of its type to have survived.license:
CC0
